is the tide turning on the lockdown?that it was easier to impose restrictions than to lift them. there's been strong compliance with the measures but some people are wary about going back to work while the virus remains active. secretary of state, when will you start easing the lockdown measures? although the lockdown in england has been formally reviewed by ministers today, we will have to wait until sunday for the prime minister to set out a direction of travel. this is a message from the government... but one familiar feature of lockdown will change this weekend. the government will modify it straightforward and successful stay home slogan. to help save lives, stay home. but ministers are stressing that any move to lift the lockdown will be gradual. i'd really urge caution, the safest thing to do, at the moment, with this virus and the way it spreads, is wherever you can to stay home. yes, get out and get that daily exercise, and if you can't work from home and can work in safe circumstances then the guidelines are th

plus, making the best of life in lockdown. from puppies to plastic doors, how people are finding ways to stay in touch. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments first we begin here in the uk —— boris johnson and his colleagues have sought to provide answers to some of the many questions asked, about the prime minister's plan to relax the lockdown in england. the government has published a 50—page document which would work on condition that people follow the rules. scotland, wales and northern ireland have their own powers over the lockdown and they say it's too soon to relax measures to the same extent. this report from our political editor, laura kuenssberg. was the day any different? on the wild yorkshire coast? on the quiet manchester commute? to a few more travellers on london's lines, all trying to work out what the slow train to a new normal looks like, with many questions tonight put direct to the prime minister. yesterday, you left the nation

there has been total lockdown in their houses.eir safety and steps they need to take. you are saying you want a road map for days ahead at which they can do other things, and from their point of view lockdown can be further eased? that is right. mcmillan has heard recently from some people who received letters in march seeing lockdown for 12 weeks, an identical letter one month later, now they harris heating different news today. we need the government to set out clarity. the need to write to eve ryo ne clarity. the need to write to everyone affected. as well as the details and the guidance they need to know what practical support is going to be available because there will still be advice not to go shopping, go to pharmacy, go to their workplaces. a lot of charities have written to the government in the last few days saying we need details about what practical support, help, physical health, mental help is available. just one last question. how difficult has it been for some of those who have been in this shielding lockdown, isol

pakistan is easing its lockdown this weekend.ear in mind, in pakistan, the number of cases continue to go up. the prime minister is saying the lockdown has to be eased because a large number of people just cannot afford to continue living like this. let's hear from our pakistan correspondent. >> initially, there were fairly strict restrictions in place. last month, a number of industries and some small businesses were alwed to start up again. now, pretty much all shops and businesses will be allowed to reopen. shopping mls will remain closed, as will schools and universities. i think this was done for a couple of reasons. one, the lockdown restrictions were initially passed last month and caused some confusion in shops that were technically not meant to be opening up again. they opened up anyway. it was tricky for the authorities to enforce -- to force other small businesses to remain closed. it also tied in with the issue we have been talking about from the outset. the prime minister says around 25% of the country is living belo

is the tide turning on the lockdown?vernment is finding it is easier to impose restrictions than to lift them. there has been strong compliance with the measures and some people are wary about going back to work while the virus remains active. when will you use the lockdown measures? although the lockdown in england has been formally reviewed in england today, we have to wait until sunday for the prime minister to set out the direction of travel. this is a message from the government... but one familiar feature of the lockdown will change this weekend. the government will modify its stay—at—home slogan. but ministers are stressing that any move to lift the lockdown will be gradual. we urge caution. the safest thing to do at the moment with this virus and the way spreads is whenever you can, stay at home. yes, get that daily exercise and if you can't work from home and can work in safe circumstances, the guidelines out there for that very purpose. we have to continue in the process. we are doing everything we can to ensur

but the lockdown has left deep scars.regions. the worry here is of organised crime preying on poverty. carpenter raffaele says with work stopped, he may have to sell his tv to get by. "there's been lots more crime since the lockdown," he says, "even kids dealing drugs and stealing cars, since they need to eat." fighting the mafia's resurgence is this priest under protection, making up boxes of supplies for the needy to stop criminal groups from stepping in instead. translation: the mafia has always exploited italy's moments of weakness, and this is one of those moments. they give people help but then ask for drug dealing or money in exchange. we have to give citizens the antivirus to defend themselves, to stop the mafia from reclaiming this territory. a health crisis has become a social one, and this is what other countries, too, may face as they reopen from a lockdown that is stopping the dying, but killing the economy. mark lowen, bbc news, naples. earlier this year, president trump praised china's handling of the pande

that's what we've been doing in lockdown.s fashion going to get back to normal? a model rehearsing in beijing yesterday, and guess what, of course, facemask and now on the ca twa lks of course, facemask and now on the catwalks as well. we just don't know what's going to happen. talking about not knowing what's going to happen, the return of the premier league may be at some stage and sally will be talking about this this morning, there's talk of neutral grounds being used and a discussion going on between various teams in the premier league about whether that's going to work and who it will benefit. sally will be looking at that this morning. i think she will be speaking to brighton striker glenn murray as well, they are one of the teams back in training last week and how they're doing that. we had a chat with him on football focus at the weekend and each player has their own half which they use, that is how socially distant they are at the moment. tell us your thoughts, get in touch and in about ten minutes we are speaking t

the lockdown period to take young people abroad immediately once lockdown ends, so the fear is thatwe are in lockdown during the amount of time that people could not travel, so there is a real danger that there will be a big spike of people going as soon as as they allowed to travel internationally again. polly, we know the charitable sector funding has been squeezed before all of this. do you think charities and others who might be in a position to help will simply have the resources to reach out and try to help the people who are being forced into marriages that they don't want to be in? i know that we are all making contingency plans to continue our services. funding has always been an issue, especially for specialist services such as ours. i certainly think more does need to be done to ensure the sustainability of specialist services, right now and after the lockdown as well. 0k, polly, lynn, thank you for talking to us about the story today. thank you again. the headlines on bbc news... test and trace systems get underway in england and scotland today as part of a more targeted

the thing to remember is seoul and south korea has never had a lockdown.to stay at home, work from home where possible, but there's never been a lockdown. these nightclubs were opened on april 19th. the entire party district was opened. you were allowed to go clubbing if you wore a mask, if you wrote down your name and contact number at the door, and if you used hand sanitiser. but after the long holiday weekend, the district was completely packed. there appears to have been, yes, an outbreak at a number of clubs. the complication is that, when it comes to south korea's ultimate challenge of testing, of tracing, of isolating, they've proved so good at it, but right now they are trying to trace a number of people who may not want to come out, and the reason for that is because being gay in south korea is extremely difficult. we've done a number of articles on it in bbc world. when it comes to coming out, you can sometimes lose your family and lose yourjob, so many people, yes, have perhaps given false names at the door and may be reluctant to come forward.

during lockdown.discuss further ways of easing the lockdown and they can only do that if they keep the virus under control and it could be much more difficult to keep it under control if in effect people start interpreting the guidelines quite as flexibly perhaps as downing street and start doing their own thing. many thanks. our political correspondent iain watson. businesses will be expected to pay around a quarter of the wages of furloughed workers from the start of august. the chancellor has said the furlough scheme will be in place it currently supports around eight million jobs. our business correspondent, katie prescott, is in the bbc business unit for us. tell us what is planned. well, this is the moment businesses have been waiting for, to find outjust how much of the furlough build they will be expected to pay. this was put in place to protect jobs be expected to pay. this was put in place to protectjobs during the coronavirus pandemic, to make sure there was no mass unemployment and there w

that's mainly a product of the lockdown and also a product of the lockdown and also a product of thete optimistic in this reference scenario that there will be some sort of v shaped recovery. but there are quitea sort of v shaped recovery. but there are quite a few reasons why that may not pan out. we don't have to have social distancing measures and other restrictions in the economy for quite some time, and there is the uncertainty you referred to in your news report. so i think the bank is probably erring on the optimistic side in terms of how quickly the economy will rebound. the nature of it leads the bank to seem to assume that compared with the financial crash of 2009, the rebound could be quite marked and fast. how realistic is that? i think it depends very much how consumers respond. at the moment, consumers are being held back by the fact they can't consume many things they would normally consume because parts of the economy are down, pubs, restaurants and garden centres and things like that. as restrictions are relaxed, that problem will ease, but we will not return to the

spain continues to ease its lockdown.ourists can travel to the country again from july and top—flight football will resume next month. guernsey will become the first part of the british isles to lift nearly all its lockdown restrictions. boris johnson minister's chief aide dominic cummings, is facing new claims that he breached lockdown rules. earlier, he and the government insisted he'd acted "reasonably and legally" by driving 260 miles from london to durham in march while his wife had coronavirus. ministers said they'd chosen to self—isolate at a property adjacent to other family members in case they needed help with childcare. however, tonight the bbc‘s spoken to a man who claims to have seen him at another location 30 miles away in mid april. downing street say the story is ‘inaccurate'. here's our political correspondent iain watson. you're supposed to be more than two metres apart. borisjohnson's senior adviser, dominic cummings, lecturing reporters on social—distancing, but his opponents accuse him of breaking the

so in terms of being able to not have the lockdown, being able to not have the lockdown, being able toe, who we have met, which contacts might be vulnerable, then that definitely is the route that the government is trying to take in order to get society working back in the way that it normally were. sophie hutchinson there, thank you. (pres)stay with us on bbc news as we wait for this evening's that's coming up in a few minutes. welcome to viewers on bbc one, as we wait for the prime minister to lead today's coronavirus briefing from downing street. that's after his top advisor, dominic cummings, appeared in the rose garden at downing street a short while ago to give his reaction to all the controversy around his decision to travel hundreds of miles to his parents' home with his family during the lockdown. so, plenty for us during the lockdown. so, plenty for us to discuss. and it will be interesting, to say the least, to see what borisjohnson has to say following the statement by dominic cummings earlier. mr cummings, by the way, pretty unrepentant, saying he had no regrets about the

since the lockdown began seven weeks ago.re gent failed to prevent more cases getting in. >> there are cases all across the country by not taking measures on the border and quarantining early. >> the small numbers of flights and passengers means tof cases f ber virus that could ve come in would have had a minimal impact. the quarantine is expected to take place at the end of the month. n h tople cannot the p will avie self-isolate immgovernment acations. lewis: cou difficult forhe airlines. the airline business in this country employs about one million people. it is a huge deal.we are remembering britain is one of the top destinations in europe for tourism. anything that impacts international tourism will put a massive strain on an economy trying to recover from the lockdown. you would not be surprised to hear the tousms very worried. wis: thanks for that. stay with us. still to come, bars and clubs have been told to close after dozens of neworavirus lepe from the northeast and elsewhere in england who travel to scotland for

the general lockdown.paigners are calling for the visa scheme to be extended for all key workers in the nhs. and how is the lockdown relaxation working out in england? we talk to some of those taking advantage of the changes. and in the sport on bbc news, tennis, golf and other sports restart as lockdown restrictions are eased, but it is not the same picture across all of the uk. good evening. the united kingdom is already in the depths of a significant recession according to the chancellor, rishi sunak, in the light of a record fall in economic output in march, according to the office for national statistics. the impact of the pandemic is likely to be even harder in the coming months, with one prominent expert saying the economy was in "freefall". the uk economy shrank by 2% in the first three months of this year, a period that includes just the beginning of the lockdown. the independent institute of fiscal studies warns that the real impact of the lockdown is yet to be felt, with household spending shrin

and this is the reason why we adopted such unprecedented lockdowns. we had also the experience to be first among western countries to take these decisions, unprecedented decisions. but just think to the fact that sadly, despite these decisions, all over europe, we had more than 150,000 people dying in these last couple of months. so now, we are in a different phase, a transition one, and all the relation with life first and danger in our economies are coming to the surface and we have to manage them. all right. let me just ask you both very quickly. on social media, jake kearsley, from here in the uk, says, "it seems sensible, for me, to put measures in place for a limited lockdown for the at—risk groups to rightfully protect them, but allow the rest of the economy to function as normal as possible." just very quickly, that's something that you hear young people in particular say very often. tony blair, briefly on that one. yeah, i agree with that. so, i think it's very important that we distinguish between the groups that need to be protected very cl

all without a total lockdown.ng things that way. translation: people felt relaxed because the situation was getting better, but after the outbreaks at nightclubs, i thought we shouldn't put our mind at ease because we don't know when and where the virus will spread. translation: the outbreaks occurred in my neighbourhood, so i'm very scared and disappointed. for other country still in the middle of strict lockdown or just at the start of easing social distancing, this spike in cases it could be an uncomfortable glimpse into the future and an example of them of the lessons yet to be learned in fighting the covid—19 pandemic. reged ahmad, bbc news. business leaders are hoping the prime minister's address will provide some clarity, on how people can get back to work. and while any major lifting of restrictions may be a long way off, some businesses are taking matters into their own hands, as our business editor simonjack explains. heigh—ho, back to work we go — with a difference. at ford's technical centre in dunton,

but the lockdown has left deep scars.t areas of one of the eu's poorest regions. the worry here is of organised crime preying on poverty. carpenter raffaele says with work stopped, he may have to sell his tv to get by. "there's been lots more crime since the lockdown," he says, "even kids dealing drugs and stealing cars, since they need to eat." fighting the mafia's resurgence is this priest under protection, making up boxes of supplies for the needy to stop criminal groups from stepping in instead. translation: the mafia has always exploited italy's moments of weakness, and this is one of those moments. they give people help but then ask for drug dealing or money in exchange. we have to give citizens the antivirus to defend themselves, to stop the mafia from reclaiming this territory. a health crisis has become a social one, and this is what other countries, too, may face as they reopen from a lockdown that is stopping the dying, but killing the economy. mark lowen, bbc news, naples. the alzheimers' society says it's fac

if they surge again, the lockdown will come back.these moments of liberty could mark a turning point or prove fleeting. damian grammaticas, bbc news, valencia. let's get more on this from barcelona with local journalist guifre jordan. thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us. what has the first day been like? well, people were really looking forward to this moment after seven weeks of tight lockdown and it was common in certain cases, it was quite crowded, quite busy, especially by the sea, in big towns, big cities like madrid and mark barcelona. but people tended to respect this social distancing, the safety distance is far as i have witnessed from my experience and also from footage. so people, most of them, were aware of what was going on, although of course could feel the joy of people setting foot on the street to just go for a stroll, go for a walk or do exercise for the first time in 50 days almost. an incredibly long time, isn't it, a huge leaf bison people for sure. we have been hearing about the shift system,

news live from berlin british prime minister for its johnson addresses the nation after 7 weeks of lockdown but if anyone was expecting our rapid end to tristram shandy they'll be disappointed with the 2nd highest death toll in the world johnson's plan is cautious also coming up on the show. germany keeps a close eye on infection rates amid loosened lockdown measures while newly reported outbreaks in slaughterhouses have put the spotlight on living conditions for contract workers from eastern europe. nowhere to go and nothing to eat thousands have been left homeless in the kenyan capital nairobi after the government flattened their homes in the midst of a global pandemic. i'm claire richardson and welcome to the show britain's prime minister boris johnson tonight unveiled a roadmap for exit in britain's lockdown and a televised announcement he outlined a cautious relaxation of some of the measures but encouraged everyone to carry on observing social distancing britain has the highest official coronavirus death toll in europe. and it's thanks to your effort and sacrifice in stopping the spre

how well has the lockdown gonein countries. how well has the lockdown gone in india?e, even considering the difficulty in physically distancing from each other. the rate of doubling of cases was happening probably every four days, prior to the lockdown and it slowed down tremendously to about ten days. which, essentially, was the projection prior to the lockdown which buys the country around a month of time to prepare and that time has now been used to prepare for the itu beds and the ppe to be able to take it on when it comes. but, within the lockdown, people are still expected to try to social distance. how do people manage that when they are living on top of each other? well, not everybody is living on top of each other but many people are, certainly more room for people in rural areas but if you live in an urban slum, much more difficult. keepin urban slum, much more difficult. keep in mind, we are trying to reduce transmission on average, so some people are able to physically distance and it helps, it helps that people aren't on public transport, so people aren't

there's to be limited easing of lockdown restrictions in wales. from monday, people will be allowed to exercise outside more than once a day. one week on from the lifting of one of the strictest lockdowns in europe, wesee how the people of spain are coping with the daily commute. translation: todayis translation: today is the first day i leave home and go to work. i am afraid. you don't know what might happen. you may catch the virus. and, a father and son are charged with murder after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in the us state of georgia. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we're covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. first, furope has been marking the 75th anniversary of the defeat of nazi germany in the second world war. events are dramatically scaled down because of the coronavirus pandemic. at a ceremony in berlin, the german president expressed gratitude for the country's liberation from the nazis. here in the uk a two minute silence was been held led by princ

families‘ joy as spain begins to ease one of europe's strictest lockdowns.n the united states, president trump announces virus testing for more americans. as lockdowns are loosened, how can countries prevent a second wave of infections? we speak to a health expert. we begin in the uk, the country with the second—highest number of recorded deaths from covid—19 in the world, after the us. prime minister boris johnson and his colleagues have sought to provide answers to some of the many questions asked about the plan to relax the lockdown in england. the government has now published a 50—page document. but scotland, wales and northern ireland have their own powers over restrictions, and say it's too soon to relax measures to the same extent. laura kuenssberg reports. was the day any different? on the wild yorkshire coast? on the quiet manchester commute? to a few more travellers on london's lines, all trying to work out what the slow train to a new normal looks like, with many questions tonight put direct to the prime minister. yesterday, you left the nation wi

a six—week lockdown has been eased, but only partially.staurants like this one can only restart their businesses with strict social distancing measures. this man reckons he can only keep going another three or four months like this. but one restau ra nt four months like this. but one restaurant has come up with an ingenious solution to dining in these socially distanced times. it is these plastic screens which allows customers how to dine at the same table while still observing the strict health requirements laid down by the thai authorities. far from putting people off, the novelty of sharing a meal through a plastic screen seems to bea through a plastic screen seems to be a winning formula for this young and fashionable crowd. 0ne winner among one winner among so many businesses which are struggling to adapt to the strange new post covid—i9 world, as we emerged from lockdown. more than half of people globally think the country was far too late in responding to covid—i9. but not surprisingly, the picture is very significantly different de

we all want to know when lockdown will be lifted. at the moment i don't see light at the end of the tunnel. the government will tell us its plans later this week. so how will we stay safe? it's clear there are still infections spreading in the community. tonight on panorama, we're behind the scenes with the scientists racing to find answers. we need to go really, really fast. it's been very stressful trying to work out how we do this safely. and we're on the front line with trial volunteers. we're hoping it boosts the immune system. so how long will it take before we can get back to normal life again? we're in this for the long haul. and i think we are going to have to adapt to live with this virus. why are you watching me with that? oh, my god. five—year—old theo hamilton's temperature is rising. his parents are worried. don't go getting a temp. we really want to stay away from a hospital. theo... he's got leukaemia. it's weakened his immune system. so theo is at particular risk from coronavirus. what will this keep away? the germs.

is the tide turning on the lockdown? and the government's finding that it was easier to impose restrictions than to lift them. there's been strong compliance with the measures, and some people are wary about going back to work while the virus remains active. secretary of state, when will you start easing the lockdown measures? although the lockdown in england has been formally reviewed by ministers today, we'll have to wait until sunday for the prime minister to set out the direction of travel. this is a message from the government... but one familiar feature of the lockdown will change this weekend. the government will modify its straightforward and successful "stay home" slogan. to help save lives, stay home. but ministers are stressing that any move to lift the lockdown will be gradual. i'd really urge caution. the safest thing to do, at the moment, with this virus and the way it spreads, is wherever you can to stay home. yes, get out and get that daily exercise, and if you can't work from home and can work in safe ci

how much has it been affected by the lockdown? it has had affected by the lockdown?or sector, which has been challenged by the closure of showrooms. as a result that has left us at around 30% of capacity at the moment. we have had to furlough people and we have been working on a survey across our customers to engage as to when they will look to try to get back to business as they see as normal, or even staggered. so that survey is key to how we can step services up and start to take future steps forward. i am interested in the fact you are using the furlough scheme. that comes to an end at the end of june. if there was a cliff edge, and if it just june. if there was a cliff edge, and if itjust suddenly june. if there was a cliff edge, and if it just suddenly stopped june. if there was a cliff edge, and if itjust suddenly stopped at june. if there was a cliff edge, and if it just suddenly stopped at the end ofjune, would that be an issue for you and perhaps other businesses? yes, for sure. and it won't happen like that. it will be a staggered approach back. it will be

>> sweden's nebraska had lockdown -- never had lockdown. was it really necessary?e'll know that by the end of the year. take all the data that's been collected, the day of infection rate and, obviously, severity of lockdown. here it's been a very british affair, very gentle, not really legally imposed. sort of a few people get arrested for sunbathing and that's about it. in latin america military police states, you get -- if you leave your house, someone comes and gets unpleasant with you. that's not been the case here. so all these comparisons will come out, but we need time to do them. gerry: we've got to take a quick break. see the prospect of people being arrested for sup bathing here in the united states this weekend. but when we come back, i want to talk to you further about whether the lockdowns have really been necessary, whether in some regards of health care they may actually be making things worse. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ gerry: my guest is dr.sikora. doctor, you are a cancer superbist. one of the return -- specialist. one of the concerns i think a lot of pe

but, madrid and barcelona are still in lockdown.ia is partially reopening train services from tuesday, making masks and health services mandatory for customers. a rise in infections. lockdown will the be eased in england from wednesday. prime minister paresh johnson says more people -- prime says moreoris johnson people will be going back to work but should avoid mass transport. reporter: in it for the long haul, and an easing. the prime minister set out the new measures for england. it was clear there would be little that would be returning to normal. the sectors that are allowed to be open should indeed be open, but with social distancing. if the alert level begins to rise, we will have no hesitation in putting on the brakes, delaying or reintroducing measures locally, regionally, or nationally. reporter: as the u.k. tentatively bears to changes, it will be taken slowly with many obstacles ahead. many people who can't work from home are being encouraged to return to work. england, wales, scotland, and northern ireland all have dif

so, will the lockdown mark a change in uk driving habits?s president, edmund king. hello, edmund, thank you for talking to us. tell us first of all about those key findings from your survey. it was quite interesting because we actually commented that the air was better, there was less congestion, and did people want to do anything after lockdown to continue with that cleaner air? and 82% generally said yes they would take positive action. and i think some of the action they say they would take is a lesson from lockdown. people are staying more locally, they are walking in their locally, they are walking in their local vicinity, they are cycling more, and they are losing their car less. some of them have indicated that they would continue doing that after lockdown. there are also broader things that they talked about. some 26% said they would actually fly less. and also a substantial proportion said they would work from home more. and i think if there is one measure, if you like, that could help with congestion, both on the roads and public t

until the lockdown begins to be lifted. spain is under one of strictest lockdowns in the world.wed to go out on their own to buy food or medicine and walk their dogs. it is forbidden for children to go outside. in just a single week, the number of covid infections has tripled. and hospitals across spain are struggling. the uk has started its own lockdown. i've travelled the world making documentaries. now, for the first time, i'm making a film about my own country from my home in london. la mancha, a region two hours south of madrid has been hard—hit by the virus. i've make contact with a nurse, loli. loli's husband, jesus, is supporting her. loli and jesus have two children. when the crisis started, she took them to live at her sisters‘. she hasn't seen them for two weeks but today she's going to visit them to give them their schoolwork. in madrid, the army has turned a convention centre into spain's largest medical facility injust ten days. they have even laid medicinal oxygen pipes under the floor. it is now treating hundreds of covid—19 patients. blanca's a gp who has volunt

, but the purpose of the lockdown is actually to unlock.on movement of people, is strictly going to be enforced only in areas that have high numbers of coronavirus cases. other areas, which is most of the country, will see the phased reopening. only schools and colleges are not being opened for another couple of months. we have not heard anything about international air travel as well. but other things, shops, shopping malls, even places of religious worship, as you explained, are opening up. even today, you talked about saturday, today is an update on saturday and the numbers are still the highest single day. it is 8300 today. and they have seen that for the last two weeks, that numbers are consistently rising as india started easing restrictions. so over the last two weeks, train travel has been allowed in the country, so has domestic airflights. millions of people, in fact, migrant workers, who were stranded without pay in big cities, have been moved as they wanted to go back to their home towns, complaining they had no food to eat, no w

out of lockdown, 1's job creation economies do start coming out of lockdown, 1'sjob creation beginsat has on our climate. can we as a result of what we have been through in many countries find a balance after lockdown? i think we will. i have a sense of optimism about this. we are all learning just how well we can live, or many of us are learning how well we can live from our homes. we are learning how to use zoom and skype and all of these mechanisms for keeping in touch. i'm having conversations with people around the world in a way that previously i would have had to travel to those countries to have those conversations. all of that is reducing greenhouse gas emissions. i think the air industry will never recover to the levels it has been out recently. that does mean that we will see various areas of income generation, particularly around travel, being diminished. but in terms of the current lockdown, it affords us as has been suggested a glimpse ofan affords us as has been suggested a glimpse of an alternative paradigms, and that is focused on the well—being of all people and on

, they are saying, let's come out of lockdown in the same way.hree weeks later do something else and then three weeks later at something else. another one said to me, we are still dealing with a staggering number of daily deaths. we have not got a grip on this. i said, i am also trying to find a scientist who are saying we are backing the government, saying they are doing the right thing, and they are doing the right thing, and they said you will find it hard to find someone who says the government is following the science. the garment has the prerogative to ignore the science but if they do that they owe the country and its the notion of where they are doing this does migrate the government. —— an explanation of why they are doing this. we have not found a scientist who is willing to come in records and say otherwise put up at the press c0 nfe re nce and say otherwise put up at the press conference today, it will be interesting to see what is said. can you put it into context as yet in terms of the number of people who may well be supportive of

it is a deeply controversial part of this country's lockdown.ys its prohibition is working, that by restricting alcohol, they're reducing public violence and keeping hospital beds free for coronavirus patients. but the ban is also fuelling organised crime. these schoolchildren are now selling contra band cigarettes on behalf of powerful gangsters. these people are quite scary, are they? yes, they are very scary. they carry guns around. they can't trust anyone. do you feel ashamed of doing this criminal activity, or do you think this is a stupid law? i feel ashamed. it's not ok. you'd rather have a properjob. exactly. as for bootlegging, it seems like everyone is at it now, kitchen gin being distilled for sale in the suburbs, and home—brewed pineapple beer the only source of income now for a mother—of—three who lost herjob because of the lockdown. what would happen to you if you were caught? the police, if they can catch me, they'd put me in the jail. are you afraid of that? yes, i'm afraid, because my kids — who can look after my kids? and those

spain continues to ease its lockdown.n travel to the country again from july and top—flight football will resume next month. hello. welcome to bbc news. there are new claims about the movements of the british prime minister's advisor, dominic cummings, during lockdown. he's faced calls to resign — for driving more than 400 kilometres from london to the north—east of england after his wife developed coronavirus symptoms. downing street has defended mr cummings's trip to be nearfamily, saying it had been "essential" for him to ensure he had childcare. here's our political correspondent iain watson. you're supposed to be more than two metres apart. borisjohnson's senior advisor, dominic cummings, lecturing reporters on social—distancing, but his opponents accuse him of breaking the lockdown rules himself. when his wife became ill at the end of march, he, she and their four—year—old child didn't self—isolate at their london home, but travelled more than 250 miles — to county durham. well, it's a question of doing the right th

out of lockdown. vaccines. we need to think well ahead of this. yes, we do have a vaccine workforce and a vaccine star, only appointed a couple of weeks ago, that is true, but do we have the manufacturing capability for vaccines and could we possibly build a large factory that would produce enough vaccines for europe and possibly for the developing world ? and possibly for the developing world? —— might we have a vaccine tsar. i think we could do that and there is potential. are we managing to do all these things? when i hear governments say we must cope with whatever we can do in the national health service, this is not what other countries are doing. they are saying, this is what needs to be done, therefore we have to increase the number of doctors and nurses and health care workers, they have been increasing capacity to handle the epidemic. as we come out of lockdown, i would say one of the pieces of advice has to be that when you are shopping, when you are out with other people, even two metres ap

one familiar feature of the lockdown will change this weekend.will modify it straightforward and successful "stay home" slogan. to help save lives, stay home. but ministers are stressing that any move to lift the lockdown will be gradual. i'd really urge caution. the safest thing to do, at the moment, with this virus and the way it spreads, is wherever you can to stay home. yes, get out and get that daily exercise, and if you can't work from home and can work in safe circumstances then the guidelines are there for that very purpose. but we have got to continue on the process that we have had that we are doing everything that we can to ensure people's safety. the prime minister told the commons that there could be some changes to the restrictions in england from monday, and one of the most likely alterations is to expand the range of outdoor activities that are allowed, so instead of simply exercising, you might be able to lounge around in the sunshine, but the key message from the government is this — keep your distance, stay two metres apart, ot

if they surge again, the lockdown will come back.o these moments of liberty could mark a turning point or prove fleeting. damian grammaticas, bbc news, valencia. local journalist is in barcelona and had been monitoring the easing of the lockdown. people were really looking forward to this moment after seven weeks of tight knockdown and it was, in certain places, it was quite crowded, quite busy, especially in the seafront, by the sea, and big towns, big cities like madrid and barcelona. but people tended to respect the social distancing, the safety distance as far as distancing, the safety distance as farasi distancing, the safety distance as far as i have witnessed from my experience and also from footage, so people, most of them are aware of what is going on, although of course you could feel the joy of people setting a foot on the street to just go for a stroll, go for a walk or do exercise for the first time in 50 days, almost. that is an incredibly long time, isn't it? a huge relief by so many people, i am sure. and some changes

dominic cummings broke lockdown twice. outside his house and asked if he would resign, and he said obviously not. he said he did not ca re obviously not. he said he did not care how it looks. what do you make of that response? extraordinarily arrogant. we have had people be fined for their behaviour. some arguably for lesser things. now he is saying that the rules don‘t apply to him and it is extraordinary arrogance. it is interesting that we are seeing conservatives, we were briefing yesterday, i saw damian collins had just tweeted, another tory mp had tweeted, they are all saying dominic cummings should go. lots of people are warning what it really shows, their desperation to protect this man, is that they can‘t survive without him, but boris johnson can‘t see —— can‘t do the job without him, which is struggling. but dominic cummings and his reaction yesterday was appalling. many people have not been to funerals to relatives or visiting the sick relatives, and there he is taking the virus around the country. it seems ext

a six—week lockdown has been eased, but only partially.g measures. panuwat reckons he can only keep going another three or four months like this. but one restaurant has come up with an ingenious solution to dining in these socially distanced times. it is these plastic screens, which allows customers to dine at the same table while still observing the strict health requirements laid down by the thai authorities. farfrom putting people off, the novelty of sharing a meal through a plastic screen seems to be a winning formula for this young and fashionable crowd. one winner, among so many businesses which are struggling to adapt to the strange new post—covid world, as we emerge from lockdown. the pandemic is having all kinds of unexpected side effects as a result of millions of people being forced to stay inside. many places are reporting cleaner air or water as pollution has been greatly reduced, and on the coast of south—east india, the absence of people has had a dramatic impact, as the bbc‘s tim allman explains. burrowing out of the sand,

we are all desperate to get out of lockdown!om the prime minister on sunday but the one thing he doesn't want to do its risky rate of infection increasing? that's right. there is very little room for manoeuvre. the virus is still out there. 4600 new confirmed cases today. then we have this all—important r number, the rate of transmission and the average number of people each infected person goes on to infect. it is crucial that is kept below one, so we have a shrinking epidemic. it is shrinking, it is somewhere between 0.5 and 0.9, we are told, but 0.9 is perilously close to one. it may be at its lowest in london, which had the worst epidemic and that is to its highest in scotland. it's been driven at the moment not by transmission in the community but by new cases being spread within hospitals and within care homes. because the r number isn't falling rapidly enough across the uk, that is why there is so little room for manoeuvre. george eustice, the environment minister, said there would be a broadly similar approach across the

day two of relaxed lockdown measures in nigeria.t some businesses are allowed to reopen for a few hours a day. this in car no and other cities. the main doctors association says this is "very premature." >> after five long weeks of he is relieved at a parshall return to normality. practice toved, clean -- practically in every way. >> across march, busiest centers werere forceced to close as pepe were ordered to stay at home. now, this shop, and many like it, are allowed to reopen between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. we need to open every day. [inaudible] >> there are more people on the streets, but the prolonged lockdown has left many out-of-pocket. >> [inaudible] >> meanwhile, ongoing coronavirus measures continue to have serious implications for the country's jobs market. drivers for one are not allowed to carry more than two passengers at a time. to make upot going for the money we are making. >> elsewhere, street vendors are spying an opportunity, with homemade facemasks now joining snacks and drinks as travel essentials. nigerian au

even though so far during this lockdown, we have seen almost com plete lockdown, we have seen almostof the uk, i think you are beginning to see the potential at least for that to start to soften a bit. as the leaders of scotland, wales and northern ireland look at their own transmission rates of the virus and work out, what is in our own best interest here? i think there was a lot of concern, particularly in scotland a few days ago when they were at the british press preview in what looks like a significant relaxing of rules when the prime minister makes his announcement on sunday, that is not going to happen now by all accounts. it is clear that any changes will be very modest, in—line i imagine with the things we heard from mark dra keford the things we heard from mark drakeford in wales today, a bit more exercise, recycling centres opening, libraries possibly, garden centres, things like this. but i think as much as possible, they will keep the four nations aligned. given the fact there are no internal borders in the uk, if i had an essential journey, i borders in the uk, if i had

s slow climb out of lockdown isn't proving easy. bryson. researchers in the u.k. think that sniffer dogs may be able to tell if people are infected with the coronavirus before they show any symptoms it could provide a fast noninvasive way to detect the disease 6 dogs will be given samples of the smell of infected patients and taught to distinguish it from people who don't have the virus in the study were him to determine whether people who have 1000 have this thing to do you were and then train dogs to detect it and we're very grateful to the u.k. government for supporting this very exciting research and it builds upon years of research that we've already done as a team to demonstrate that people who have a malaria infection have a distinctive body odor and we've shown that dogs can be trained to detect that with very high accuracy so if this is successful and we show the same for kuwait 19 this could completely revolutionize the way that we are tackling this disease in italy the daily covert 19 death toll has fallen to its lowest more than 2 months but the countr

as we go out of lockdown, it has to become the first of all, phased, and released after lockdown, andnd the monitoring with testing is going to be extremely important. so, at any time, if there is a lot of red flags that things are not looking so good, then, again, more strict measures may have to be put in place. migrant workers will be sent home, the government says, but with a mass of people to transport, for many, the uncertainty continues. yogita limaye, bbc news, mumbai. us democratic candidatejoe biden has flatly denied sexually assaulting a former staff assistant nearly 30 years ago. mr biden‘s former aide, tara reade, was one of eight women who came forward last year to accuse the former vice president of sexual harassment. here is joe biden speaking on us television about the allegations. i am saying unequivocally it never, never happen, and it didn‘t. it never happened. do you remember her? do you rememberany types of complaints that she might have made? i don‘t remember any type of complaint she may have made. it was 27 years ago, and i don‘t remember nor does anyone else

how's the first week of not—quite—so—lockdown lockdown been?en good being able to go out and do more exercise. i did 30,000 steps yesterday. wow, is that good? i have no idea, no—one's ever explained this step business to me. but talking of health, another issue that has been happening over the past couple of months is that when people have needed to go to the doctor or hospital, they have been nervous about either catching the virus or playing their part in overwhelming health systems. so that has meant in some cases, that people have missed urgent care that they really needed. sojen copestake has been to harrogate district hospital and a gp surgery in london to find out how staff has been trying to see more patients remotely where they can. when coronavirus hit the uk, we saw hospitals being rapidly set up to take more patients and even new ones were built. but in the last month, admissions to hospital emergency rooms have dropped to the lowest point since records began. many hospitals have seen a decline in the number of patients coming in f